Martin Hÿtch

Martin J. Hÿtch received the Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, in 1991, with the Ph.D. thesis entitled “Quantitative high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM).” He moved to France to work with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Center for Chemical Metallurgy, Vitry-sur-Seine, where he joined the CNRS in 1995. Since moving to the CEMES-CNRS, Toulouse, France, in 2004, he has been working on aberration-corrected HRTEM and electron holography for the study electronic devices. Since 2009, he has been the Head of the Nanomaterials group with the CEMES. His research focuses on the development of quantitative electron microscopy techniques for materials science applications. He is notably the inventor of geometric phase analysis and dark-field holography (HoloDark), which are two techniques for the measurement of strain at the nanoscale. The techniques have been applied to a wide range of material problems and nanostructures. He has published more than 80 papers in international journals and given over 20 invited talks at international conferences.